Re: RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

Stephen Lee,

		To tell you the truth, sun 4500 is the most high end sun i have ever touched:), so i do not have experience on concept like partition etc.
		And talking about that excellent High Avaliable feature like CPU/Memory corruption and the server still run,that is really something great. And i did not know it before.And i think it is impossible to implement on that kind of low end Dell PC servers, but for servers like V880, that is also something impossible i think, right? We cannot compare a product whose value is 1M$ with products whose value is 10K$:).  After all, intel is still on middle-low end.
		Thanks for your valueable knowledge, thanks.
		

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zhu chao
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• 2002-11-15 08:00:00 ,you wrote£º=======

>> -----Original Message-----
>> So, what is the advantage of Sun? Redhat Advanced
>> server and 920 is also so much stable, and Sun T3 disk array
>> is also of poor performance. CPU poor, disk array not that
>> good, why sun?
>>
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>One thing I noticed is that you were using an older Sun. The current Suns
>have CPU's more than twice as fast as what you are using. It would be
>interesting to see the results using a new Sun rather than an old one. I
>have always thought the Dell PowerEdge series was an excellent value. But I
>have always appreciated the very well thought-out design of the Sun machines
>and the overall excellent package of solid hardware, very stable OS, and
>excellent customer service that Sun provides.
>
>Some capabilities of the Sun -- which might or might not exist on the Dell
>(I don't know) -- are the ability to partition the machine into "domains"
>and dynamically move resources between the domains. The Sun will run OK
>with a bad memory module or bad CPU's. As long as the Sun has one working
>CPU, it will run. I haven't done sys admin work for a while, but in the
>past, Sun provided a utility called Symon that displayed a detailed picture
>of the system boards and, if there was a problem with a component, would
>show you which component had failed. Whether these features are of any
>value to you depends on you. One other point in favor of the Sun is that
>Sun is excellent at maintaining backward compatibility in releases of its
>OS. You could, in fact, take a ten year old Sparc IPC, install Solaris on
>it, and use it as a web server or file server. Almost every old (in
>computer terms) Sun shop has those old "lunch box" (not pizza boxes) Sun's
>hanging around, still perfectly usable. Something I doubt could be said
>about a 10 year old Intel box.
>
>As I have mentioned in a previous post, the SunSolve CD is an excellent
>resource. One is tempted say "worth its weight in gold", but it is actually
>worth more than that.
>
>As far as the preoccupation with which box can produce the best benchmark:
>In my personal philosophy, either a box is fast enough to run the
>application for which it is intended, or it is not. After that point those
>less tangible qualities, such as those listed about, do count and should be
>considered.
>
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